EVE General Discussion

I've never read much of the man's blog, just bits here and there when someone would link it. I had no strong feelings one way or another about the poster even after the Erotica1 affair. But now going back and reading what he wrote I get why some people are sayign they won't miss him lol.

One thing he said in that 'final' that always amuses me when i see it, the whole "nostalgia" reaction people have:

Four years ago EVE players were every bit at each others throats as they are now. Hell, if anything, EVE Online is a kinder/gentler place that it's ever been. I see a lot of people saying things like this (ie "when i started playing there wasn't all that much scamming or suicide ganking" and "back in the day you could get a solo pvp fight easy, now solo pvp is dead").

It's not just a game thing. It's just how people are. There is something about aging that makes people forget that in many cases, the past was as crappy as (or crappier than) the present.

I'll be 40 in a few weeks and I met up with some old high school classmates at a bar not long ago. Most of us we Class of '92 but there were some '91s and '93s there too (my high schools alumni association hosts get togethers like this). The 2nd most notable thing about those get togethers is how much talk there is about how great things were back then and how crappy they are now.

( I say 2nd because the 1st most notable thing to experience there is the combined detrimental effects of 22 years time + having kids + getting married and divorced multiple times on what was a group of hot 1992 cheerleaders....... Funny how things go, 22 years ago those 'girls' wouldn't give me the time of day and now their acting like I'm Brad feaking Pitt because i have a job and no criminal record LOL , But I digress).

I stopped going because i was tired of arguing lol. I remember how badly we all wanted to be out of there, how hard it was going to college and getting jobs, even how dangerous it was (ours wasn't the nicest area to grow up in). But 22 years later they are convinced that we lived in some golden age and things (mainly 'young people') are just worse now, despite all the indications that things are better (lower crime and fewer people dying in violent crime in our neighborhoods, lower teen pregnancy rates, fewer people going to prision, more people going to college etc etc).

Many times people don't realize that their perceptions can be and many times are flawed and depend on factors not completely under our control , like aging , like our experiences, so forth and so on. Ripard Teg strikes me as one of these types. He thinks the game or community changed when the more likely event is that his perceptions of things have changed and he's noticing things now that didn't even register in the past.

By stopping the blog, he is torturing his fanbase.



The circle is complete.

I should write a blog about that.

That line is pretty tired. Come up with some original content for once.

Cool content there bro, I see you practise what you preach real purdy like.

May I see your Posting Permit?

I think it's a little bit sad that this thread has devolved into a "screw you Ripard" fest.

For me I will miss having a place to go to read somebody else's opinions on Eve. Whether I agreed with them or not is almost irrelevant.

I don't think anybody can deny that R/J put out a lot of (blog) content and made a significant impact on the Eve landscape throughout his career, even if you disagreed with it. What he achieved was another piece of the finely woven tapestry of Eve.

At least he could write in coherent sentences. That put him a step above many people in this game.

I always think it lessens the richness of the community when someone stops contributing. Not that I blame him - far from it.

Fair enough. Am not fawning over him. Just acknowledging someone who put a lot of time and effort into the game.

I would then suggest either Bacon's blog, or Feyd's depending on how Hooah you are.

And there is always Minerbumping, which is both very well written and awesomely inspiring. Not to mention uproariously hilarious.

Thats cool, welcome to the party then



What dispute? Just letting you know other sources of halfbaked opinion are available.

I recommend mine. SP's is good if you like dresses and Unsuccessful does a great line in scathing irony.



Oh thank god, you are with us after all phew!

God-forbid someone does something controversial in Eve

Well, Ripard did say he was going to set aside most of his other alts to partake of the 10% of EVE he still enjoyed. Stirring **** on the forums sounds like a winner to me.